It was the quick alert look, the flash of the eye, the nameless distinction which is so hard to fix.

And then we had saved him when he lay gasping upon the shingle, and one's heart always softens towards what one has once helped.
"If you will come with me," said I, "I have little doubt that I can find you a bed for a night or two, and by that time you will be better able to make your own arrangements." He pulled off his hat, and bowed with all the grace imaginable.
But Jim Horscroft pulled me by the sleeve, and led me aside.
"You're mad, Jock," he whispered.

"The fellow's a common adventurer.
What do you want to get mixed up with him for ?" But I was as obstinate a man as ever laced his boots, and if you jerked me back it was the finest way of sending me to the front.
"He's a stranger, and it's our part to look after him," said I.
"You'll be sorry for it," Said he.
"Maybe so." "If you don't think of yourself, you might think of your cousin." "Edie can take very good care of herself." "Well, then, the devil take you, and you may do what you like!" he cried, in one of his sudden flushes of anger.

Without a word of farewell to either of us, he turned off upon the track that led up towards his father's house.

Bonaventure de Lapp smiled at me as we walked on together.
"I didn't thought he liked me very much," said he.